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btw, for people who were there at the time, even considering the bare metal assembly nature of IPL, were people already approaching solutions similarly to lispers in the 60s ? aka dynamic generic lists, tree traversals etc
To me it's an evidence that the brain is that sensitive to neurological reward to the point of being bent into automatic aimless actions just for the sake of keeping the cycle going.
It's not as deep and harmful as alcoholism but still too large not to ignore.
And whenever you poke you found it seemed to be comparing apple and oranges and conversations often ended in v users crying because "this is a new project !"
(yet, the crowd kept growing and they seemed to have produced larger and larger projects with this thing)